Bill Samko is in his fourth season on Tom Gilmore’s
coaching staff in 2014, and his third year as the offensive line
coach. He has placed a player on the All-Patriot League teams in
each of the last two years, with Sean Whited being honored in 2012
and Kyle Pedretty being recognized in 2013. During the 2011
campaign, Samko was a volunteer assistant coach working with the
offense.

Samko joined the Crusaders after spending 17 seasons as the head
coach at Tufts University from 1994-2010. He won 57 games during
his time at Tufts, and is tied for second on the school’s
all-time list for coaching victories. Samko was previously the head
coach at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., from
1987-1993, going 35-27-1 while winning a pair of Southern
Collegiate Athletic Conference titles and twice being named the
SCAC Coach of the Year. He also spent time as an assistant coach at
Yale from 1981-1986, after beginning his career as an assistant
coach at Tufts from 1974-1980.

Samko is a 1973 graduate from the University of Connecticut,
where he played football and baseball. A native of Worcester, Samko
graduated from Worcester Academy in 1969.